And as an addendum, let me remind you of Robert McElwaine, who would be my candidate for the all-time looniest loon to appear on any forum. Anybody I’ve seen here pales by comparison. If we are going to start considering USENET looniness, though, it should probably be another thread.
For the curious: http://kalex.engin.umich.edu/mcelwaine/
Ohhh shit . . he was that mind-control wierdo, right?
Yup, that’s the guy.
Oh, those halcyon usenet days of my youth.
But you’re right, other boards, lists, etc, should be another thread, if at all.
As I recall we were talking about pinkydan.
Oh shit, I said it.
Gotta disagree. For pure weirdness, Quonster (aka The Feudalist) couldn’t be beaten.
He was (apparently verified IRL) an Asian immigrant who looked forward to the day when we’d all be serfs again and posted LOOOONG essays on rec.arts.sf.written and soc.history.what-if (among others)(he got in some serious flame-wars with S.M. Stirling) about how we’d all be slaves and like it. What’s weird is that he had this weird fetish: he didn’t think he’d be (or want to be) one of the leaders in the new regime, he wanted to be the leader’s flunky… He posted thousands of messages about the coming Feudalist revolution. He was apparently totally sincere. McElwaine was far more prolific, but Quonster was far, FAR weirder.
The other weird one is some cretin named Omar (or some varient). His “gimmick” is/was to show up on rec.arts.comics.dc.universe (and other groups in the rec.arts.comics heirarchy) and say something an obscene or “shocking” word or two in response to just about everyone’s post. He reminded me of the guy in “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” who’s life mission was to insult people.
Fenris
Good call, Beer.
Brrrr.
I got another one - what was the name of that guy who claimed to be, at one time or another, a Brazilian worm farmer and a porn magazine editor? He was nutso.
IIRC, he posted a thread challenging everyone to prove that McDonald’s burgers weren’t actually made from worm meat.
Perhaps he’s not the greatest looney ever to grace the board but Smithwow is one of my all-time favorites.
Haven’t heard from him in a long while. I hope our posts encouraged our “Nigerian” friend to tap some WHITE ass that night.
He only lasted 8 posts in a single thread, but SMS Seydlitz had real potential to become a very entertaining loony. It’s a shame he flew off the handle like he did.
damn…damn…damn whatwashisname…
gnome something or g8nome, cant find that looney anywhere!
anyone remember this old sod?
it would not be polite not to answer this:
well, this would be about the first time you belived i was being honest, congratulations are in order! CONGRATULATIONS, i am flattered.
and who are you to critisize my attempt to live up to my looney status?
you know perfectly well that ive been doing this from day 1…
so another one on the looney list: coldfire!
bj0rn - enjoy your stay
That was smartt. Here you go, on the topic of anal sex in animals, where he claims to be a Brazilian porn magazine editor:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=45183
Somebody else can run down the worm farming
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She came back as LittleTassie and managed to con quite a bit of sympathy out of a lot people before she was finally exposed and thoroughly flamed.
(you’d be suprised how many Pit threads the search “sick dying child boo” turns up)
I was also about to nominate R_dawg for his I’m proud to be white thread, but upon review it seems he didn’t do much beyond the OP. His main contribution was in returning from banishment in a flurry of sock puppets and declaring the SDMB to be a bunch of Communists.
And if we’re including Usenet, I’d like to nominate the TurkBots, including Hasaan B. Mutlu and Serdar Argic, who would crosspost anti-Armenian diatribes in every newsgroup they could find.
–sublight.
I met kibo in person. He seemed smaller in real life.
I trump you all! I pronounce the Dark name! Specifically, the Tom Dark name.
There are several well-respected posters whom I wouldn’t let within 50 feet of my home, my kid, my cat, or even my septic tank. Frankly, I think there are some serious closet whackos on this board. Watch 'em deconstruct on a few telling threads and tell me you manage to feel the same way about them, even when they’re safely and sanely debating something innocuous like whether Jonagold apples are tastier than Fujis…
Even someone who manages to seem normal 90% of the time scares me, given what they’ve freaked over that other 10%.
Hey, don’t forget Friend of God! Civil, polite, but monomaniacal, and unable to argue or debate without resorting to circular reasoning, and always ready to alter his definitions to preserve his argument! He was here for our sakes! A classic example of a fundie.
I haven’t yet seen mention of dragonfly99 whose obsession, IIRC, was subliminal advertising. I believe he briefly reappeared as dragonfly98.
And there was blando and the sunrise, or the sunset, or some such.
While maybe not a 'net looney, this thread did make me realize we haven’t heard from NanoByte in a bit - hope he’s OK.
Ahh, Quonster. I posted - well, lurked - on soc.history.what-if, and there is little way for something like Quonster to pass by without you noticing. What I found even more interesting than his feudalist delusions were the pathetic alternate histories he tried to submit. These included Korea invading Texas, Germans winning WW1 by their secret weapon called lancers (this, of course, was a cunning codename for men on horses, charging the enemy with… lances) and one titled “What If Big Bird Raped The Nymph?”
However, if we are allowed to speak about non-SDMB lunatics, I’d like to mention my sweet old home Apolyton.net forums. There, we had (well, still have) this one guy called Evan von Christoph. Evan first appeared about two years ago. Back then, he was a fascist. He hated homosexuals and space aliens (and it was pure ice-cold loathing for space aliens, too) and espoused fascist dogma. He also advertised himself as commander of something called “Truppen Der Todes”, an organization of which he didn’t divulge much information except that it was planning to take over the US and he was it’s commander. He pretended to be of German descent. The name “Truppen der Todes” proves how much of German blood he had in him.
That, of course, still keeps him as normal forum lunatic. Dime-a-dozen. Sort of which there are on every forum. However, then someone named Emperor Craetsezar appeared. It was hate on first sight between EvC and EC. Emperor wanted a return to imperial Rome, with preferably himself as Emperor. He also had suspiciously similar posting style to EvC. He and EvC had long long flame wars, where there were new posts every 11 minutes. Later it was found out that EvC was conducting these flame wars with two computers, running between them and flaming his other login.
Then came Lucifer D. Satan. Lucy, as we called him, was a Satan-worshipper, who promised death and servitude to his master for all of us. EvC hated him, and then was revealed to be him. Then came General Steelman. General Steelman was supposedly American intelligence officer, who was concerned about “dangerous terrorist organization called Truppen der Todes”, and asked us for information about it’s leader, Evan von Christoph. Not surprisingly, EvC was him, too. All the while, the ‘real’ EvC would flame people, praise his ideology, accuse moderators of stepping beyond their powers (Shining gems of this were “Apolyton Files”, periodical anti-moderator rants.) Every few months or so, he’d announce he was leaving, and without exception, in few weeks he would be back as good as ever. All this behavior earned him the title “Apolyton Daffy Duck”.
Well, then, he was gone for an extended period, and to tell you the truth, we had kind of forgotten him. Then he came back. He said that all his behavior had been a joke and that he was really a homosexual and on medication. He continued to post, and usually these posting periods descended to normal, regular EvC behavior, flaming everyone in sight. Then he’d post again that he hadn’t been taking his medication or whatever the reason was that time. Then he changed his name to “Cecil”. And currently he alternates between destructive, near-suicidal mode and Christian mode. We still aren’t - can’t be - sure if this is very very very elaborate and well-pulled-off joke by a very smart individual or one genuinely disturbed individual. And, of course, that is a sign of a true lunatic.
Perhaps this is my own folly, but after posting here (and I’m rare in the Pit), I got to feeling a bit funny about this. Is this the thread where we identify all the posters it’s OK to make fun of?
Eh, maybe it’s OK; there certainly have been some unique viewpoints through the portal.
Since we moved on to Usenet, which I find safer to comment on, here’s someone I bet many would like to forget, Archimedes Plutonium. Betcha didn’t know he was still around…
Gawd, I love the web. Psychoceramics is a hobby of mine, and it’s all Tagish Elvis’s:eek: fault.